Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1746 - 346 pages |
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Page 7
... ridiculous representation of majefty . These paffages the editors have very rightly expounded . I will now mention fome others , which seem to have escaped their notice , the allufions being not quite fo obvious . THE INIQUITY was often ...
... ridiculous representation of majefty . These paffages the editors have very rightly expounded . I will now mention fome others , which seem to have escaped their notice , the allufions being not quite fo obvious . THE INIQUITY was often ...
Page 39
... ridiculous to a critical and philofophical inquirer , who takes no other criterion and ftandard to 9. Spencer in his Fairy Queen , of Prince Arthur . This Arthur reprefents his patron , Sir Philip Sydney . And every one of his knight ...
... ridiculous to a critical and philofophical inquirer , who takes no other criterion and ftandard to 9. Spencer in his Fairy Queen , of Prince Arthur . This Arthur reprefents his patron , Sir Philip Sydney . And every one of his knight ...
Page 59
... . So that which Homer writes of Hector , perfued by Achilles , would be ridiculous on the ftage ; for here the foldiers must be Standing curiofity , and defired to hear a particular account of Sect . 6. on SHAKESPEARE . 59.
... . So that which Homer writes of Hector , perfued by Achilles , would be ridiculous on the ftage ; for here the foldiers must be Standing curiofity , and defired to hear a particular account of Sect . 6. on SHAKESPEARE . 59.
Page 95
... ridiculous . " But he redeemed his vices with his virtues . " There was ever more in him to be praised " than to be pardoned . " If Shakespeare was this honeft man , he must have felt what the charms of honefty were , and thus have ...
... ridiculous . " But he redeemed his vices with his virtues . " There was ever more in him to be praised " than to be pardoned . " If Shakespeare was this honeft man , he must have felt what the charms of honefty were , and thus have ...
Page 103
... ridiculous . An ugly woman , tricked out in a tawdry dress , renders herself more notoriously contemptible by her useless ornaments . " 8. Τῇ δὲ λέξει δεῖ διαπονεῖν ἐν τοῖς ἀρ [ οῖς μέρεσι , καὶ μήτε ἠθικοῖς μήτε διανοητικοῖς ...
... ridiculous . An ugly woman , tricked out in a tawdry dress , renders herself more notoriously contemptible by her useless ornaments . " 8. Τῇ δὲ λέξει δεῖ διαπονεῖν ἐν τοῖς ἀρ [ οῖς μέρεσι , καὶ μήτε ἠθικοῖς μήτε διανοητικοῖς ...
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